When I was seven, I knew exactly who I was: a thoroughly American girl in race, manners, and speech, whose mother, Lulu Minturn, was the only white woman who owned a first-class courtesan house in ...

Then again, the language may sound awkward only to modern ears. Readers may find themselves wondering throughout "The Valley of Amazement" whether they hadn't already read this book.

The author of The Joy Luck Club visits Houston to discuss her latest book in Books in Conversation: Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement. It took Tan eight years to write Valley. She was already ...

Enthusiastic fans packed the auditorium of the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston to capacity on Monday night to hear writer Amy Tan talk about her new book The Valley of Amazement.

After a seven-year hiatus, Oakland-born author Amy Tan returns to fiction with “The Valley of Amazement,” a tome of nearly 600 pages that crosses continents and centuries. Tan, who speaks in ...

Amy Tan was 200 pages into a new novel when she attended a large exhibition on Shanghai life in the early 1900s. While there, she bought a book she thought might help her as she researched details ...

Amy Tan fans have waited eight years for her latest novel, "The Valley of Amazement." Readers who enjoyed her earlier work will not be disappointed in this book, a tightly ...